I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

Artists need to express.

I don't see myself as a diva at all.

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

I've known how to control my anger, but that doesn't mean I don't feel it. Page 190

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning earning and yearning.

For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Don't talk yourself out of following your heart. Talk yourself into it.

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

I will stay in my bed!

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.